Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for...
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
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...
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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