One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.