This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.