Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold