Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.