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

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.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

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

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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 solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.