We were created for purposes unknown to us by Almighty God, who is using us and training us for His own objects--objects wholly unconceivable by us, but nevertheless which we know to exist, for Intelligence never works but for an end.
-- * The reference is to Thackeray's story of a hairdresser named Samuel, who remarked, "Mr.Thackeray, there comes a time in the life of every man when he says to himself, 'Sammy, my boy, this won't do.'" The story was an especial favourite of Froude's.
-- "Of other things which are popularly called religion, I have my opinion positive and negative.

But religion to me is not opinion it is certainty.

I cannot govern my actions or guide my deepest convictions by probabilities.

The laws which we are to obey and the obligations to obey them are part of my being of which I am as sure as that I am alive.

The things to argue about are by their nature uncertain, and therefore it is to me inconceivable that in them can lie Religion.