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.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

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.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.