There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.