He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

All but God is changing day by day.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

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

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.