The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.