Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

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

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.