The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!