Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.