We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

Fear could never make virtue.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.