If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

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

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.