Conviction

Be true to your own highest conviction

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen

Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Men willingly believe what they wish

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution

A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.