To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Modesty and chastity are twins

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Never fear to make mistakes

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

I believe that God is very real.

Bacon improved things dramatically.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.