Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.