What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

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

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

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

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

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

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