All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.