The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.