One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.