There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

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

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

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

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.