Love is the piety of the affections.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

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.

There is no college for the conscience.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.