There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.