We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

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