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

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

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

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.