C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Wilberforce
“Drink deep or taste not,” is a direction fully as applicable to religion, if we would find it a source of pleasure, as it is to knowledge.
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Lovely flowers are smiles of God’s goodness.
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through Jordan! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.
The faith of immortality gives to every mind that cherishes it a certain firmness of texture.
The smiles of God’s goodness.