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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

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.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.