To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

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

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

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

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.