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

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.