The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.