Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

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

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

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.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

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.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.