It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

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.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.