Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.