The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a considerable degree in all ages As civilization extended, they by one means or another became most wonderfully dispersed through all countries; and at this day they are almost literally everywhere, the most conspicuous, and in the eye of reason and religion, the most respectable nation on the face of the earth.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.