He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

Laughter means sympathy.

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

The devil has his elect.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.