Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

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

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

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

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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.