Fear is the parent of cruelty.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

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

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

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

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