If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.