God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.