A good deed is the best prayer.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament. It is only when we discard the idea of a deity, the idea of cruelty or goodness in nature, that we are able ever to bear with patience the ills of life. I feel that I am neither a favorite nor a victim. Nature neither loves nor hates me.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.