“Never abandon the wholesome practice of saying your own private prayers, night and morning.”

Recommending private prayer as a sustaining personal practice · Letter to Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, 1868

• Faith
• Hope

“That we cannot hold in too strong a light of disgust and contempt, before the view of others, all meanness, falsehood, cruelty, and oppression, of every grade and kind.”

Defining moral opposition to cruelty, deceit and oppression · Speech, 7 February 1842

• Truth

“You could no more deprive him of those sustaining qualities by loss or destruction of his worldly goods, than you could, by plucking out his eyes, take from him an internal consciousness of the bright glory of the sun.”

Arguing that cultivated inner resources survive material loss · Speech, Manchester, 5 October 1843

• Hope
• Truth