The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.