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

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Love is sentimental measles.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

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.