Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.