Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.