The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

He who writes badly thinks badly

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.