Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

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

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

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

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.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.