Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.