Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

The first thing I notice about a girl, is her hands. I like girls with nice hands. ... And she must be spontaneous as well.

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.