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.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

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.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.