Morality does not depend on religion.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Morality does not depend on religion.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.