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

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

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

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.