It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.