I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.