Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties..

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with th….

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows..

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve..

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so..

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal..

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that wh….

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with..

I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among….

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world..

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease..

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with..

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter..

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys..

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spirit….

Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, ….

We live merely on the crust or rind of things..

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to re….

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by the….

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it..

Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if th….