Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.