It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.