Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

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

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.

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