The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.
Nothing falsifies history more than logic.
If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.
Common sense is the genius of mankind.
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.