Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

Man cannot choose his duties.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.