Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

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

Science is the natural ally of religion.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

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.