I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.