"Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy Him forever." — Westminster Catechism.

"I shall merely enumerate a few of the most common of these feelings that present obstacles to the pursuit or propagation of truth: Avertion to doubt; desire of a supposed happy medium; the love of system; the dread of the character of inconsistency; the love of novelty; the dread of innovation; undue deference to human authority; the love of approbation, and the dread of censure; regard to seeming expediency." -Whately's Annotations on Bacon's Essay on Truth, page 10.

"The principles on which I have taught: First. The establishment of positive truth, instead of the negative destruction of error. Secondly. That truth is made up of two opposite propositions, and not found in a via media between the two. Thirdly. That spiritual truth is discerned by the spirit, instead of intellectually in propositions; and, therefore, Truth should be taught suggestively, not dogmatically. Fourthly. That belief in the Human character of Christ's Humanity must be antecedent to belief in His Divine origin. Fifthly. That Christianity, as its teachers should, works from the inward to the outward, and not vice versâ. Sixthly. The soul of goodness in things evil." —Life of F. W. Robertson, Vol. ii. p. 160.