Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

We are religious by nature.