All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.