If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.
God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.