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

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

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

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

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!