Real improvement is of slow growth only.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

No man ever became wise by chance.