Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.