Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.