Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

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

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.