Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

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.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.