Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.