A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.