Example has far more followers than reason.

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

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

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

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.