An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.