Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

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.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

I look through the grave into heaven.