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.

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

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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 better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.