We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

The world remains ever the same.