We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

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

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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