What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

To philosophize is to doubt.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.