Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.