The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.