I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.