When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

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

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.