To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

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

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.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

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

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.