There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.