Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

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

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

Human improvement is from within outward.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.