Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.