Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

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

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.

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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.