God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.