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

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

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

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

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

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.

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