Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.