As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

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.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

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

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.