Human improvement is from within outward.

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

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

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.