Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Our prayers are prophets.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.