A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.