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

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

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

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 superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.