The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
From James Anthony Froude
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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