Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.