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

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.