The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.