No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.