"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."

"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."

"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."

"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."

"He who hates vice hates men."

"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."

"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."

"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

"A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation."