Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Never excuse yourself.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.