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

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

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.