It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.