Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.