Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

The spirit is the true self.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.