Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

I believe in deeply ordered chaos

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.