Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!