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

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.

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.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

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.

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.