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By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. - [Purity] Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children! - [Light] Lord Lyttleton says true domestic bliss shuns too strong a light. - [Domesticity] Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone. - [Religion] The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one. - [Jokes] The virtue of Christianity is obedience. - [Obedience] True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. - [Goodness]
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