If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.