Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase? How can that be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.