Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.