As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

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.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

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.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.