Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

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.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

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.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.