Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.