Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.