Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.