Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.