We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

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.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

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