The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.