The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.