Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.