Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

Human improvement is from within outward.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.