Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

All perception is colored by emotion.

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.