Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.