Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.