The test of a religion or philosophy is the number of things it can explain.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.