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

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

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

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

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