The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.