To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.