To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

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.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.