It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

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.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because