No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

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

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?