Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

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!

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

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

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.