Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.