The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

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.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.