Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.