The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.