Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.