Morality does not depend on religion.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.