The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

The conscience is more wise than science.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.