Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.