Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.