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.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.