Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.