To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.