One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.