While we teach, we learn.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.