The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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

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

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

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

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

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