Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

We have a duty to prevent the consequences of assault.