Hearts are stronger than swords.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.