Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit..

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless..

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps..

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion..

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants..

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse..

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant..

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few..

Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dra….

The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names ther….

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm..

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements..

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only..

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for….

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an ….

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire..

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality..

The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparat….

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that ….