Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.