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

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

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.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.