Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.
Science is the natural ally of religion.
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.