I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.