The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.