Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.