No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.