In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?