Fear is the parent of cruelty.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

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.