Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.