You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

The Thames is liquid history.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.