All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.