Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.