In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.