When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.