Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.