Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.