We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?