The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.