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

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

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.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.