Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.