A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.