Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!