The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

Morality does not depend on religion.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.