Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.