But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

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

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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.

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

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

Justice without wisdom is impossible.