If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much h….

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of….

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice..

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs..

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest thi….

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits..

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordin….

Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and….

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God..

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available..

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized..

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness..

To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or in….

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishi….

Invention is totally independent of the will..

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity..

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects..

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics..

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence..

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race..