Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

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

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.