I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.