Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.