We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

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

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

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

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.