A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.