An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers