A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

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

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.