What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

Conscience is wiser than science.