Patience is passion tamed.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.