The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.