Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.