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.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

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

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.