Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.