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.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.