“The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.”
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“Doctrine is nothing but the skin of Truth set up and stuffed.”
“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
“Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.”
“When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.”
“A servant is one who receives orders, and is not admitted to conference.”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”
“Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out.”
“A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past.”
“To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school, is to put a race horse in a mill.”
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”