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.

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.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.