The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.