Civilization depends on morality.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

I think no virtue goes with size.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!