Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

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.