It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.