Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

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