I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them

More men go to church than want to.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.