Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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.