The history of art is the history of revivals.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.