Thy Plain And Open Nature

For Me This World Was Neither So High Nor So Low As The Church Would Have It; Chequered Over With Its Wild Light Shadows, I Could Love It And All The Children Of It, More Dearly, Perhaps, Because It Was Not All Light.

To Deny The Freedom Of The Will Is To Make Morality Impossible.

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. We Are Not As We Were. When Christianity Was First Published, The Imagination Of Mankind Presented The Relation Of Heaven To Earth Very Differently From What It Does Now.

The Providence That Watches Over The Affairs Of Men Works Out Of Their Mistakes, At Times, A Healthier Issue Than Could Have Been Accomplished By Their Wisest Forethought.

True Greatness Is The Most Ready To Recognize And Most Willing To Obey Those Simple Outward Laws Which Have Been Sanctioned By The Experience Of Mankind.