Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

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

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.