Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.