 In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. |
| Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. |
| Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. |
| In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. |
| Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Topics: Courage |
| The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. |
| Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. |
| There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. |
| Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. |
| Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. |
| Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. |
| Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. |
| Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. |
| He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. |
| If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. |
| Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. |
| The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. |
| Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. |
| The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. |
| The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. |
