Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

The moderns do not realize modernity.