The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.