Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.