True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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