He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.