Of two evils choose the least.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.