Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.