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

"I am convinced with Plato, with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin, and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and…"

"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 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…"

"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 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 …"