The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

The most useful is the greatest.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

There is no college for the conscience.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.