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

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

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

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.