Fear is the parent of cruelty.

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.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

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.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

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

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