Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Science is but an image of the truth.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

States, as great engines, move slowly.