Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.