It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Haste in every business brings failures.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.