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

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

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.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

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

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.

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