Be not a slave of words.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.