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.

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.