If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.