My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.