It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.