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

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

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.

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

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

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

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.