The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

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.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.