Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.