It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.