It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.