Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week..

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias..

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely..

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it..

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distin….

What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost alwa….

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-w….

Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and….

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itse….

I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of drea….

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing..

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoug….

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it..

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes….

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs..

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope..

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression..

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ….

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself..

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody..

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them..