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.

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

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

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

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

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

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