One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.