Human improvement is from within outward.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

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

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

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

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.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.