We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

We change whether we like it or not.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.