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

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

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.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

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