Human improvement is from within outward.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

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

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

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

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

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.