Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

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.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.