Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.
Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!
I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
I used to like studying a lot.
History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.