On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.