I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.