We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty