Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

All the devils respect virtue.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.