What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.