——There are, at least, three real saints among the women to one among the men, in every denomination.
——The spiritual standard of different classes I would reckon thus:—
1. The comfortably rich.
2. The decently comfortable.
3. The very rich, who are apt to be irreligious.
4. The very poor, who are apt to be immoral.
——The cut nails of machine-divinity may be driven in, but they won't clinch.
——The arguments which the greatest of our schoolmen could not refute were two: the blood in men's veins, and the milk in women's breasts.
——Humility is the first of the virtues—for other people.
——Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of a large one.