If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.