You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.