The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

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.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.