The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

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

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.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.