Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.