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

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.