There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

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

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.