The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

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