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

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

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.

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

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.