Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is a tool-using animal.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.