The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.