Delay is preferable to error.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

The dead should not rule the living.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics$$$ in religion$$$ in philosophy$$$ as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him.

History$$$ which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future$$$ is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

We can experience nothing but the present moment$$$ live in no other second of time$$$ and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.