We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

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.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.