Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.