Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.