“No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.
“Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers
“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him
“Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being
“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life
“Christianity is not only confirmed by miracles, but is in itself, in its very essence, a miraculous religion
“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly
“The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life
“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls