Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.