The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

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

There is nothing higher than reason.

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.