God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.