"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a companion to travel with, it should be one that would talk little."

"I am as much a High-Churchman as ever I was. And I hope to live and die so."

"I do not love to dispute about religion. I had rather feel it."

"I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God; just hovering a few moments over a great gulf, till, on a sudden, I drop …"

"I have often thought that the greatest proof of the goodness of God to man, is that he has given him a wife."