How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

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.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

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

We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.