Truth is one, but error is manifold.
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done