Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.