Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.