There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.