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.

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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

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

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

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.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.