Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Greatness is its own torment.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

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.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.