My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

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.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.