Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.