We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

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.

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

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.