No man is so great as mankind.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

This is one I know you hated when you heard it and it's worse because you know that I deserve it

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

You're never more like Jesus than when you're giving.

God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord.

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.