Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.