Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

To lose confidence in ones body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Fear could never make a virtue.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.