God alone can finish.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.