Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

Greatness is its own torment.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

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

Love is the piety of the affections.