Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

Habit is necessary to give power.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

The more we do, the more we can do.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.