Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.