This was one of the thoughts unspoken to our parents which we carried to good old Zachary, and on which he had much to say which cheered and comforted us.
'These janglings and wranglings,' said he, 'are but on the surface, and spring from the infinite variety of the human mind, which will ever adapt a creed to suit its own turn of thought.

It is the solid core that underlies every Christian creed which is of importance.

Could you but live among the Romans or the Greeks, in the days before this new doctrine was preached, you would then know the change that it has wrought in the world.

How this or that text should be construed is a matter of no moment, however warm men may get over it.

What is of the very greatest moment is, that every man should have a good and solid reason for living a simple, cleanly life.