The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.