The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.