That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity