The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.