In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty