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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.