A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.