Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface