When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave