Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
