Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.