Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Great men never require experience.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.