“To have established such relations with readers of my books is a great happiness to me, and one that I hope never to forfeit by being otherwise than manfully and truly in earnest in my vocation.”

Valuing readers' trust as something that must be earned through sincerity · Letter to R. M. Ross, 19 February 1866

• Art
• Friendship

“This watch, with which you have presented me, shall be my companion in my hours of sedentary working at home, and in my wanderings abroad.”

Linking a gift with future work, travel and remembrance · Speech, Coventry, 4 December 1858

• Memory
• Time

“If he has no home, he learns the same lesson unselfishly by turning to the homes of other men.”

Extending the idea of home into sympathy with the lives of others · Speech, London, 30 December 1854

• Friendship
• Home