The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!