The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.