As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.