The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.