The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.