People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.