False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.