I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.