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

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."

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

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

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.