When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.