I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

My vocation to preach on paper.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.