I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.