It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.