In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
From John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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 does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Ability is sexless.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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