But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.