No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.