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

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Human improvement is from within outward.

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.

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