Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.