Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.