All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.