But, I may be told, we teach the ten commandments, where a world of morals lies condensed, the very pith and epitome of all ethics and religion; and a young man with these precepts engraved upon his mind must follow after profit with some conscience and Christianity of method.

A man cannot go very far astray who neither dishonours his parents, nor kills, nor commits adultery, nor steals, nor bears false witness; for these things, rightly thought out, cover a vast field of duty.
Alas! what is a precept?
It is at best an illustration; it is case law at the best which can be learned by precept.

The letter is not only dead, but killing; the spirit which underlies, and cannot be uttered, alone is true and helpful.

This is trite to sickness; but familiarity has a cunning disenchantment; in a day or two she can steal all beauty from the mountain tops; and the most startling words begin to fall dead upon the ear after several repetitions.

If you see a thing too often, you no longer see it; if you hear a thing too often, you no longer hear it.