The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed