To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.