Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

What else is nature but God?

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.