We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

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

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.