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

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

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

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.