Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

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.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

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