The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end