Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.