Justice without wisdom is impossible.

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.

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.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

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