Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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.