Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.