Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

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.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.