If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."