The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

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

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

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.