The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.