Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

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

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

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

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.

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.