The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.