You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
The mind’s direction is more important than its progress.
Space is the stature of God.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
The breath of the mind is attention 128.
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.