Things are achieved when they are well begun.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

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!

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.