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.

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

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

Human improvement is from within outward.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

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.