No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

In every department of life – in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections – we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God’s organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

There are at bottom but two possible religions – that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

Women’s eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man’s prosperity, or even happiness.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn’t been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

The secret of a person’s nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship. From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life, and left us instead but the Christian religion.