Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.