Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

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.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.