Fear is the parent of cruelty.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

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

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

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