Reason speaks and feeling bites

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.