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

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

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

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.