There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.