Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

He who knows himself knows others.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.