Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.