Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Man is emphatically self-made.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.