Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
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