Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.