Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

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.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.