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

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

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

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.