There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.