The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
The less we know the more we suspect