The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.