Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.