Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

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

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

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.