They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.