Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

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.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.