This Laodicean cant of tolerance

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Place before your eyes two precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is—Put down enthusiasm! […] — the Church of England in a nutshell.

"Propinquity does it"—as Mrs Thornburgh is always reminding us.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.