Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.