A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Be not the slave of your own past.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.