Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.