Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.