Better a false belief than no belief at all.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.