I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and. . . it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country.
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.