True art is reverent imitation of God.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

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.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.