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.

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

I look through the grave into heaven.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

Nature is God's Old Testament.