The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
most men know what they hate few what they love
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.