How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me