A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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?