The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.