To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.