Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.