It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all–the apathy of human beings.
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things–the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.