One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.