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.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

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.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.