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

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

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

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

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

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.