You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Human improvement is from within outward.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .
I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
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.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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