'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.