The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Love is the piety of the affections.

The most useful is the greatest.

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.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.