The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!