The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.