It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

O God, how lovely still is life!

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.