The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

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

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.