Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

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.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.