If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.