The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.