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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.
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.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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.