Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Set your sail to the wind.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.