I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.
Prevention is better than cure.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Every third our fourth generation that comes along refuses to accept the way their parents and grandparents are living. They just don't want any part of it, and Millennials are doing that in a way. The Millennials, you talk to a lot of their parents, and they don't recognize 'em when they compare them to themselves.
The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.