The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.