"Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship. From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the relig…"

"Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to wha…"

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

"I know that even in this faithless age there are many persons to whom the Bible is what it was to Calvin — its smalle…"

"I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing b…"

"I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, th…"

"I do not dishonour the Bible. I honour it above all books. The New Testament alone, since I have been able to read it…"

"I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth."

"I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbi…"

"The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot …"