The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.