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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. - James Anthony Froude,

In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

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.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

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

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.

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

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

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.