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.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.