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

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

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

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.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.