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

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.