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.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.