Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

The soul circumscribes all things.