Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Necessity does everything well.

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.