Fear is the parent of cruelty.

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.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

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