What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.