Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.