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

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

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

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

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

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.