Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.