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

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

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

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.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

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