The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.