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

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

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