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.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.