“He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.”

“No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre.”

“A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.”

“Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.”

“The United States system of national popular education will be the most efficient and wide instrument for the propagation of atheism which the world has ever seen.”

"In the name of your own soul and its own salvation, in the name of the adorable victim of that bloody and agonizing sacrifice whence you draw all your hopes of salvation; by Gethsemane and Calvary, I charge you, citizens of the United States, afloat on your wide sea of politics, there is another King, one Jesus; the safety of the state can be secured only in the way of humble and whole-souled loyalty to His person and of obedience to His law."