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

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

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.

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.