I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.