Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.