Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.