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.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

A noble book! all men's book!

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

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

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Thought will not work except in silence.