The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

Conscience is the pulse of reason