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.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

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

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

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

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

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.