Why, sir, a government that has not the power of coercing obedience to its laws is no government at all.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

I demur to its right to be called love to God at all, for this reason—because it seems to me that the object that is loved is not God, but a fragment of God.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

So the perfection of the intellectual life is not given to the most humble, the most believing, the most obedient, but to those who use their minds according to the most purely intellectual methods.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton