If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.