It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.