Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.