We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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

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

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.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.