There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Let there be truth between us.

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.