The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by his spirit; by the climate of his heart; by the autumn of his generosity; by the spring of his hope; that he should be judged by what he does; by the influence that he exerts, rather than by the mythology he may believe.