People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.