Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.