Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

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

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

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

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.