There is no college for the conscience.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.