I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms..

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the m….

Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been un….

You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties o….

Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, th….

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm..

Justice without wisdom is impossible..

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear..

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them..

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy ….

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on t….

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness..

When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in ….

Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happ….

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all..

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing..

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity..

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who….

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty..

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we tr….

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone..