It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.