When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.