“Human improvement is from within outward.”
“The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.”
“We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.”
“A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.”
“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”
“To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.”
“The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.”
“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.”
“In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.”
“The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.”
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
“Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.”
“Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.”
“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”
“Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.”
“No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.”
“The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.”
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”