Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.