Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.