Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.