What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.