Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.