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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
Human improvement is from within outward.
Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
