"I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance — what I have always said in theory — Wait God's will."

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body a…"

"If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't a…"

"We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair;We sowed in youth a…"

"What is this Hebrew Christ? To me unknown, His lineage—doctrine—mission—yet how clear, Is God-like goodness, in his a…"

"You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of ficti…"

"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

"Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in it about three hours, and I must say I was…"

"I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!"