“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance
“It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished
“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf
“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes