Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
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.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
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.
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.
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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.
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.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accomp...