Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
The young man who has not wept is a savage,and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
Habit is stronger than reason.