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

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.