“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.