Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.