The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

Humility is the light of understanding.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.