Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.