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.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

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

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.

The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.