It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.