We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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

Writing is the painting of the voice.