Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.