Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.