It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.