Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

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."

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

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.