Quotes

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

These are the times that try men's souls.