If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.