There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.