True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.