All men desire to be immortal.
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
Love is the piety of the affections.
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.