Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.