The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

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

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

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

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

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