There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.