There is no road or ready way to virtue.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path...is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…