Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.