It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.