Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.