Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.