Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

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.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.