I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's ….

Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which ….

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy ….

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silen….

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness..

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line..

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous..

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them..

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them..

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality..

That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. W….

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the m….

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them..

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed..

What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is….

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence..

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all..

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we tr….

You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties o….

Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his li….

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who….