I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.