Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.