What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.