All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.