When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.