There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.