Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
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.
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.