Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

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.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

Human improvement is from within outward.

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