From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Ability is sexless.
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
