Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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 would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.