“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”

“The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.”

“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”

“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”

“For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a living soul: yet was she not produced from Adam's foot, to be his too low inferior; nor from his head to be his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal; that where he is Lord, she may be Lady. ”

“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”