Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

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