Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.