What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

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!

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.