The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.