We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.