Love is the piety of the affections.

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.