The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Fate is unpenetrated causes.
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.