Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.