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

Human improvement is from within outward.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

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.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

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