Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.