As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.
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.