We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

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.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

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

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.