If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.