Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
“The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.”
“Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.”