In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.