An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.