Calculation Never Made A Hero.

Evil Has No Substance Of Its Own, But Is Only The Defect, Excess, Perversion, Or Corruption Of That Which Has Substance.

Now What Is It Moves Our Very Hearts, And Sickens Us So Much At Cruelty Shown To Poor Brutes? I Suppose This First, That They Have Done No Harm; Next, That They Have No Power Whatever Of Resistance; It Is The Cowardice And Tyranny Of Which They Are The Victims Which Makes Their Sufferings So Especially Touching.

There Is Such A Thing As Legitimate Warfare: War Has Its Laws; There Are Things Which May Fairly Be Done, And Things Which May Not Be Done.

Virtue Is Its Own Reward, And Brings With It The Truest And Highest Pleasure; But If We Cultivate It Only For Pleasure's Sake, We Are Selfish, Not Religious, And Will Never Gain The Pleasure, Because We Can Never Have The Virtue.

Flagrant Evils Cure Themselves By Being Flagrant.