The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.