No philosophy, no religion

Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what you think. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."

Here's a woman whose unorthodox religious views included first atheism and freethought and later theosophy:

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most”

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd”

“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism”

“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”

“will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.”

“Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont say.”