Sacrifice Is The First Element Of Religion,

The Secret Of A Person's Nature Lies In Their Religion And What They Really Believes About The World And Their Place In It.

The Practical Effect Of A Belief Is The Real Test Of Its Soundness.

Carelessness Is Inexcusable, And Merits The Inevitable Sequence.

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.

If You Think You Can Temper Yourself Into Manliness By Sitting Here Over Your Books, It Is The Very Silliest Fancy That Ever Tempted A Young Man To His Ruin. You Cannot Dream Yourself Into A Character; You Must Hammer And Forge Yourself One.