There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

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.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

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