When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.