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

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

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.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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